@JimJatras It may seem redundant today, but US 'securing' shipping/commerce has been backbone of its post WWII extended deterrence 'world order' role 'securing' globalization. If US cedes this role on paper, then it cedes its unipolar rank. Death pangs of imperium?
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Imperium, indeed. Chomsky has been right all along. Britannia ruled the waves--now we do. It's Hegemony or Survival. We need a prominent critical voice. All we have now is Tucker.
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Congress & the media should be asking.https://twitter.com/CarlNyberg312/status/1139587941213331460?s=19 …
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President Obama making a commitment is one reason cited. But if Trump/Pompeo/Bolton see themselves fulfilling an Obama commitment, they should be forced to openly articulate this.https://twitter.com/BuglegsMcWalshy/status/1139621148772175874?s=19 …
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Love it or hate it, we are the global linchpin of stability.
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lmfao!

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Why did the US plunge Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria into total bloody chaos and cause the largest refugee crisis in modern times?
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how else are we going to start descretionry wars?
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Because we have a vested interest in keeping the shipping lanes open. And because we can.
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It'd be nice to do it in cooperation with other nations.
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Team America world police, your arrogance has been on steroids for so long the majority of Americans are desensitised to it. It will back fire at some point.
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I remember Adam Schiff complaining about China wanting to be the main power in the China Sea.
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It's not a premise, it was an explicit promise, made at bretton woods in '44.
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not only that, i own Frontline stock! (only semi-snarky here)
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Though this is on the other side of the world, disruption of commerce impacts the US. The world’s energy passes through here and also the products we sell to the rest of the world. We may be energy independent, but other countries are not.
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No national security argument with respect to energy and stability in that region?
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